Desecrating the Holmes canon wasn’t bad enough, they had to defile The Venture Brothers too?
Haven’t seen it, don’t plan to. But I wonder if a good movie ended up on the cutting room floor?
I thought it was below average, but not terrible. Some of the anachronisms annoyed me, like seeing Queen Victoria on the Titanic. As a huge House fan, I enjoyed seeing Hugh Laurie in a cameo as Mycroft.
As a huge Rosemary and Thyme fan I loved seeing Pam Ferris as Queen Victoria. I know R&T won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, especially with men, but damn I loved that show.
Hiring them to redo your garden is like inviting Jessica Fletcher to a family reunion. 
Saw a review that eviscerated it, only to conclude that you could do worse.
You know, by seeing WELCOME TO MARWEN.
Saw it last night and let me say…thank God for AMC A-List. The movie wasn’t so much a movie as it was a collection of scenes. Things just happened randomly and the bits were painfully unfunny.
The only interesting part of the movie was the song everyone sung…and that’s really only because it was written by Alan Menken.
BTW, the movie is so bad and test audiences hated it so much that Columbia tried to sell it to Netflix and they turned them down.
It apparently tested so badly with test audiences that Netflix passed on it.
That means two things: Sony knew it wasn’t good for mass appeal, since they tried to foist it off on Netflix. And, two, Netflix didn’t think it was good even for those who like that kind of movie. And they can handle Adam Sandler movies.
I was actually intrigued by the concept, and the trailer didn’t completely sink it for me. But this news definitely did.
Where’s that darned “like” button?
It’s currently at 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Plus there’s this review…
“Error 403 forbidden”? Dang, that’s harsh. But I have to agree with them that “Details: cache-ewr18146-EWR 1546454899 1990287821”, even if I’d personally have used less inflammatory language.
Varnish Cache Server is a brutal critic.
I liked them in step Brothers, a Little less in Ricky Bobby, but the trailer for this looked like shit and I knew it was going to be and skipped it. Usually in a comedy trailer you’re supposed to laugh and I didn’t laugh once. No surprises here.
I just saw it tonight.
I felt I had a duty to se it. I’m on a “Bad Films” panel at Arisia in two weeks, and it’s bound to come up.
Worse than I imagined it would be. The film plays out like a series of non sequiturs. It’s as if they wrote the script like one of those “Choose Your Own Adventures”, and they took turns writing the next scene, with each writer determined to write the others into a corner they couldn’t get out of. It’s one of the few scenarios that makes this script intelligible.
They clearly had some understanding of the Holmes Canon, but either they only had a little, or else decided to subvert it all. You can’t compare it to Gene Wilder’s The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother – not only did that film have a coherent plot and consistent characters, but Wilder was literarily savvy, as he’d proven with his script for Young Frankenstein, and he played off the Canon intelligently.
This one really is awful. What’s amazing is that they had Big Bucks behind it, so it looks freakin’ awesome, and they apparently actually shot scenes at the White Tower and in other famous sites. I’ll bet the City of London is re-thinking their liberal Filming policy now.
“It’s like Bandersnatch, but the remote’s broken. And it’s less funny!”
Blasphemy!
Step Brothers was hilarious.
Let me add my voice: It’s a steaming pile.
It’s elementary school!
Steamers are the worst!